Bug
Bug noun - A person with a strong and habitual liking for something.
Spider
Spider noun - Predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey.
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Synonyms for Spider
Nearby Words: spidery, spidering, spidered
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A joke at the time involved pointing out a spider/bug/whatever on the floor and quipping "Don't step on that—it might be Lon Chaney."Though he gained attention onstage as a song and dance man, the only film of his dancing is in the incomplete The Fascination of the Fleurde Lis.
Source: Creator / Lon Chaney -
Baikinman's team uses a spider-shaped electronic bug (ehh... right) in an Soreike!
Source: Literal Surveillance Bug - Also "bug" used as a racial epithet for insectoids, and "spider" being similarly received by the Fae.
Source: Webcomic / Daily Grind
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